Indian Astronomy

Planet Nine

                                                  

A new planet out there?

Planet NIne!. doesn't the term sound familiar? Well some of you would think about pluto, right? But unfortunately that fuzzy round ball isn't a planet anymore. The new Planet Nine(which hasn't been discovered yet xD) is actually a hypothetical body which had to exist because of drastic changes occurring in Neptune's orbit. 

The planet looks beautiful indeed?

So our scientists all being full of questions worked out with their mathematics and came up with this  so called "Planet Nine" I wrote about this sometime ago(check out here). So it old news now? But wait there, what now! Well a few months ago a project on Zooniverse started
with enrollment of common people like us to help the researchers find out if this object existed. 

So 60,000 people from all over the globe contributed to it and studied 4 million objects! out of which only 4 are candidates for Planet Nine! I too contributed to it, it was fun!

Mysterious indeed? And if we find this it would be a breakthrough because we haven't found one in our own solar system since more than a century. So wait for it and stay connected to us, our community will keep you updated.

By: Aviral Srivasatava, Founder, Author at The Mysterious Cosmos

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